Our past reading, “Electronic Community: From Birth to Backlash” outlined the creation of the Internet as a web community. I found it very interesting to learn about USENET and IRC chat as an early means of communication during the rise of the Internet. One argument I found particularly interesting, and I bet many people would question the validity of this statement, is “…the Internet is doing just fine…In the short time Blogger has been available, it has fostered an interconnected community of tens of thousands of users. These people don’t simply surf the Web. They are now empowered to create it” (p. 31).
Most people my age agree that the Internet and blogging are a great way of exercising the use of free speech. Blogs also serve as literature to read as a digital medium. For example, although I do not post very often, I like to read blogs about television, movies and technology. However, according to the video below, FOX News loathes blogging and sees it as an injustice to many industries due to its obscene language. The video was created by “Fox attacks”, a blog (interestingly enough) that dedicates itself to hating FOX news for hundreds of reasons. ¬After viewing the video, I feel like FOX is too harsh on the blogosphere and takes it too seriously. They shouldn’t become offended by the foul language found on blogs.
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Nice post. As you stated, I do question the validity of that quote. That may be because I am biased, because before this class I really never participated in blogs. Blogger has indeed connected a vast community of users in short time, but I think saying that they hold the power to create the internet is a little outrageous. Nice video, it relates well.
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